ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,678, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).
"Placement tray and recording device" was invented by Yohei Sakai (Matsumoto, Japan) and Kazutoshi Matsuzaki (Shiojiri, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A placement tray 50, which is displaceable to a closed state and an open state with respect to a device main body 34, has a placement surface 51 on which a medium is placed, edge guides 531, 532 that restrict side edges of the medium to be placed, and a link member 551 that supports the placement tray in the open state. The edge guide has a movable section 571 that pivotably switches between a non-use posture in w...